Creator: Northpole Productions, LLC | visit site
Grade Range: - 6
Enjoy a colorful look at Santa’s Village. NorthPole has interactives (concentration, word searches, counting money, telling time, mazes, and more), and you can even play checkers with Santa. Attend the Elf Academy, read stories about your elf, send animated Christmas postcards, write Santa a letter and get a reply! For those into the maker movement, there are holiday crafts to make with directions and free templates. Create an account and register your students at the same time. Students will be assigned a user ID and password.
In the Classroom
Introduce the NorthPole to students by projecting it for all to see the different areas to explore. Add a link to classroom computers for the entire site or specific areas. Post a link on your class web page or newsletter for parents and students to use at home. With younger students, consider demonstrating how to write a letter to Santa or send a postcard to a relative from this site. Take photos, or have older students take photos, of the crafts and recipes the students make and post them on your website for parents to see. Engage older students by having them post the photos with and explanation using a portfolio tool such as Pathbrite, <a href="/single.cfm?id=14067">reviewed here</a>. Alternatively, students could enhance their learning by annotating images taken of their activities with text, URL’s, or videos using ThingLink, <a href="/single.cfm?id=13216">reviewed here</a>.
At Home
Explore the NorthPole with your son or daughter and get into the Christmas spirit! Get your youngest children excited about reading and writing by reading about the elves or sending an animated post card to a relative or write a letter to Santa.
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English, Language Arts, Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Social Studies, Special Education, Writing,